Gist 859941ebbbd6686689c4c870c1e5cf18

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Gist 859941ebbbd6686689c4c870c1e5cf18

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Last edited Jul 26, 2016

Created on Jul 26, 2016

This example demonstrates a chained asynchronous workflow that reads a GitHub username from a local file, fetches the corresponding GitHub profile via the GitHub API, and writes the profile data as JSON to another file. It uses the Promise-based functions `pluckFirstLineFromFile`, `getGitHubProfileAsync`, and `asynWrite`, structured with `then` and `catch` handlers to manage data flow and error logging. The code illustrates how to sequence file I/O and network requests without callback nesting, relying on async/await-style chaining through native JavaScript Promises.

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